Mary Lou Williams

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title: Mary Lou Williams
text: Mary Lou Williams was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements and recorded more than one hundred records. Williams wrote and arranged for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie. She has been noted for her 1954 conversion to Catholicism, which led to a musical hiatus and a later transformation in the nature
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description: American jazz pianist and composer (1910–1981)
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date created: 2003-07-05T14:10:21Z
date modified: 2024-09-02T06:16:06Z
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